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Genetics of prion disease.
Topics in current chemistry - 1 Jan 2011
Lloyd Sarah, Mead Simon, Collinge John
Abstract excerpt
Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are neurodegenerative disorders of humans and animals for which there are no effective treatments or cure. They include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and sheep scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids. The prion protein (PrP) is central to the disease process. An abnormal form of PrP...
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